Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Usability Study(also: Usability Test, Usability Evaluation)
- A research method that evaluates how easily and effectively users can interact with a product, system, or prototype by observing real users performing tasks. Usability studies measure factors such as task completion rate, error frequency, time on task, and subjective…
- User Elicitation(also: Elicitation study, Gesture elicitation study, User-defined gestures)
- A participatory user-research method, widely used in gesture and interaction design, in which end users or domain experts are shown a desired system effect (a "referent" such as "rotate this object") and asked to propose the input action they believe should trigger it.…
- User Sensitive Inclusive Design(also: USID)
- A design methodology proposed as an alternative to User Centred Design for populations with highly diverse and dynamically changing needs, particularly older people. User Sensitive Inclusive Design replaces "centred" with "sensitive" to acknowledge that it may be impossible to…
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